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NASCIO Recognizes Outstanding Achievements in State IT: Finalists Announced for 2016 NASCIO State IT Recognition Awards

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has selected 37 IT initiatives in 11 categories as finalists for the State IT Recognition Awards. This year’s high quality of nominations shows that states continue to innovate and achieve great results.

The prestigious awards program, in its 28th consecutive year, honors outstanding information technology achievements in the public sector. Finalists have been named in each award category; the recipient in each category will be announced at the upcoming NASCIO Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida this September. Projects and initiatives from NASCIO member states, territories, and the District of Columbia were eligible for nomination. Finalists were selected by the NASCIO Awards Committee from a field of more than 130 nominees.

“Recognition Awards are determined by peer review,” said Dewand Neely, CIO for the state of Indiana and Award Committee co-chair. “Our volunteer judges undertake a difficult task in scoring nominations, but their review is what sets NASCIO awards apart from others in the field. Recognition from peers holds a special meaning.”

“The prestige of this awards program and its importance to the state IT community is confirmed by the large number of NASCIO members that submit nominations and give of their time as judges,” said James Collins, CIO for the state of Delaware and Awards Committee co-chair. “Though finalists and recipients are named, at its core, this program is about honoring the innovative and important work in state IT that often goes uncelebrated.”

To ensure states can access the innovations and best practices of their peers, details about all nominated projects are posted on NASCIO’s website, www.NASCIO.org.

Awards finalists in the 2016 program are as follows:

Cross Boundary Collaboration and Partnerships

State of Connecticut: Connecticut State Gigabit Connections Enable Local Government Collaboration

Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Delivering on the Promise of Digital Learning: Unprecedented Collaboration between State Government and Public Schools